Faulkner University

Scott Sanderson completed his 11th season as Faulkner's head basketball coach in the Spring of 2025. Under his tutelage, the Eagles are 235-105 and have appeared in the national tournament six times while producing 13 All-Americans. Sanderson was named SSAC Coach of the Year in 2019-2020 and 2020-2021, the sixth and seventh times he has won a conference level Coach of the Year award. 

Sanderson, who took over at Faulkner ahead of the 2014-2015 campaign, is the former head coach at the University of Mobile and Lipscomb University. He replaced his older brother Jim Sanderson, who retired from the position after 24 years.

Sanderson actually began his coaching career at Faulkner in 1985, joining his brother's staff as his top assistant. He also had graduate assistant stops at the University of South Carolina - his alma mater - and the University of Virginia before accepting an assistant coach position at the University of New Orleans. After two seasons with the Privateers, he moved on to the University of Colorado, where he was an assistant for six seasons.

Sanderson's first head coaching opportunity came at the University of Mobile, where he quickly built the Rams' program into an NAIA power. His 1998-99 Mobile team made it to the NAIA tournament championship game, and he was named the national coach of the year for his efforts. The Rams also won back-to-back conference titles under Sanderson.

Hired at Lipscomb in 1999, Sanderson spearheaded the Bisons’ move from the NAIA to NCAA Division I. In his 14 seasons at Lipscomb, Sanderson guided the Bison to a pair of Atlantic Sun Conference championships and the program's first post-season appearance, coming in the 2006 National Invitational Tournament. His first Lipscomb team, still playing in the NAIA, was No. 1 in the country for most of the 1999-2000 season, and Sanderson received national coach of the year honors from the Basketball Times that year.

In addition to his pair of national coach of the year honors, Sanderson has been named conference coach of the year four times - twice at Mobile in the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference and twice at Lipscomb, once while in the NAIA's TranSouth Conference and once in the NCAA's Atlantic Sun Conference.

Heading into the 2024-2025 season, Sanderson holds a career head coaching record of 541-331.

As a player at South Carolina, Sanderson spent four seasons as a shooting guard for the Gamecocks where he appeared in 114 games. He earned a bachelor's degree in business management from South Carolina in 1984.

Sanderson and his wife, Ronda, have four sons – Carter, Clint, Garrett and Grant – all of whom are married and starting young families. The Sandersons have four grandchildren.